ABSTRACT

You remember that when we first came to Guatemala, we hadn't the vaguest idea of where we were to work and how the problems would shape themselves. Last Spring, having some notion of the diversity of Guatemalan cultures, we planned future field seasons thus: five months of intensive work in some chosen town, and 2 or 3 months (with Andrade) of survey of the surrounding towns. When we came here to the Lake for the first field-season under that plan, it appeared to me that a better plan under the circumstances was to study not one, but four towns, semi-intensively, and survey the rest more lightly.